Missions for EVO Minecraft MOOC 2022

Missions for EVO Minecraft MOOC 2022
Who are we?
What are your first steps to join us in Minecraft?
Learn how we communicate with each other
Plan your goals (missions) in EVOMC 2022
Session description in our EVO 2022 proposal
1. Other important links
Our EVOMC22 Moderators
Brief overview of what EVO Minecraft MOOC is all about
1. Vance's 10 minute presentation at the TESOL 2021 Virtual Conference
2. Rehearsals for the 2021 presentation (more informative but longer)
EVOMC22conf Feb 8, 2022

Who are we?

Many of our participants are teachers, particularly language teachers, but some enjoy online gaming as a way of improving their English as a second language. Some of us are young, some of us are not so young, but all of us are young at heart :-)

EVO stands for Electronic Village Online. A MOOC is a Massively Open Online Course. In this MOOC we explore the multi-player game Minecraft as a virtual world for learning.

What are your first steps to join us in Minecraft?

Fill in the registration form for 2022 https://forms.gle/9gja3QCxSEEM5mMBA
Purchase your Minecraft login $28 and download software (free)
Connect with our 2022_server
See what events we have planned at our 2022 Live Events page

Explore our 2021 Video_Tutorials to see what we did last time around

Learn how we communicate with each other

Join us on Facebook
Speak to us using Discord
Connect to our 2022 Live Events in 2022 when announced
For additional help, join our Groups.io

Plan your goals (missions) in EVOMC 2022

The links point at the moment to our 2021 pages; the dates are for 2022

2022 Week 1 - Orient - Mon Jan 10 through Sun Jan 16, 2022
2022 Week 2 - Declare - Mon Jan 17 through Sun Jan 23, 2022
2022 Week 3 - Network - Mon Jan 24 through Sun Jan 30, 2022
2022 Week 4 - Cluster - Mon Jan 31 through Sun Feb 06, 2022
2022 Week 5 - Focus - Mon Feb 07 through Sun Feb 13, 2022

What's with the orient, declare, network, cluster, focus ???

Session description in our EVO 2022 proposal

Our official EVOMC22 proposal, not publicly viewable while awaiting acceptance
http://evo2022proposals.pbworks.com/w/page/145719849/EVO_Minecraft_MOOC_2022
Mirror available at our wiki before the above version went public
http://missions4evomc.pbworks.com/w/page/145720230/2022_EVO_Minecraft_MOOC_draft_proposal

Our EVOMC22 Moderators

Aaron Schwartz aschwar@gmail.com USA	Aaron Schwartz teaches ESL courses as well as public speaking, writing and rhetoric, and computer assisted language learning (CALL) at Ohio University. He's a former chair of TESOL's CALL-IS, where he has been quite active with the Electronic Village. A moderator for Minecraft MOOC since 2016, he competently and graciously runs the EVO Minecraft Server.
Catrina Marie meowmaidstorytime@gmail.com USA	Catrina Marie is what the real world calls her, but Mirea Artican is her alias from high school and while gaming nowadays. She goes by many names. They also include 'ate' in Filipino/ Tagalog or older sister in English, 'tagatulong' that means guide or helper, and Meowmaid Storyteller or teacher for people who want to improve their English and Filipino.
Heike Philp heikephilp@gmail.com Belgium/ Germany	Heike Philp is CEO of let's talk online sprl, and an immersive education specialist for language teaching and learning. She is co-initiator of EU funded LANCELOT (virtual classroom) and AVALON (virtual world) and the CAMELOT project (machinima for language teachers) and GUINEVERE (games in virtual worlds). She is founder of the Virtual Round Table Conference and co-owns EduNation in Second Life.
Jane Chien and Mattie Tsai ychien@gmail.com Taiwan	Jane Chien is an assistant professor of TEFL and has been on the faculty of Children’s English Education, National Taipei University of Education since 2005. Her research interests focus on Minecraft as a medium for English language learning and communication.
Jeff Kuhn jkuhn72@gmail.com USA	Jeff Kuhn is one of the original co-moderators and guiding lights of EVO Minecraft MOOC, having hosted our first Minecraft server in 2015. He recently earned his PhD at Ohio University where he is researching games and learning. An avid Minecraft player, Jeff has worked with teachers on using games in the classroom in the U.S., Peru, Brazil, and Venezuela.
Vance and Bobbi Stevens vancestev@gmail.com bobbi_stevens@hotmail.com Malaysia	Vance Stevens is an EFL teacher now retired in Penang, Malaysia. Founder of Webheads in Action, he has been an EVO coordinator since 2002. He is founder of the podcast series Learning2gether, and On the Internet editor for TESL-EJ where he and co-moderators have co-authored an article on Minecraft and Language Learning. Bobbi Stevens has taught young learners in Saudi Arabia, Oman, USA & UAE for over 30 years and has adapted to changes of styles and methods of teaching children over the years, especially as pertains to educational technology. She was a co-moderator of the original EVO Minecraft group in 2015 and looks forward to participating again this year.

Moderator ex-officio: Olivetree Grove manages our Discord server and assists with our Minecraft server.

Abdelmoneim, Maha

AKA Olivetree

maha4learning@gmail.com

Egypt

As a learning and development consultant Olivetree has been using games and role playing for training since 1992. As a volunteer she’s been teaching English in real life and Virtual Worlds since 2008. In 2012 she became an online gamer to experience and experiment with those environments for teaching and learning.

and with thanks for consistent support and assistance from emeritus moderators Dakotah Redstone, and Mircea Patrascu

Dakotah Redstone

dakotah.redstone@gmail.com

USA

Dakotah's real-world avatar was an Instructional Developer at a state university for 15 years, supporting faculty use of technology in the brick & mortar and online classrooms. His interests run the gamut from A to Z and go back to punched paper tape storage, pencil and paper role playing games, and painting on cave walls by torchlight. A phenomenal builder, Dakotah was a moderator of EVOMC18 and EVOMC19 and a frequent and contributing participant before that. Dak no longer wishes to moderate officially, but he appears consistently in our archives as an honorary, highly skilled, and much appreciated cat herder.

Mircea Patrascu

mircea.patrascu@gmail.com

Romania

Mircea Patrascu is an IT professional teaching kids to code during his free time. He loves to play Minecraft, but he also uses it as a learning environment for Scratch and JavaScript. He puts in frequent appearances on our EVOMC MOOC server and blogs the travels there of his intrepid counterpart MP.

Brief overview of what EVO Minecraft MOOC is all about

Vance's 10 minute presentation at the TESOL 2021 Virtual Conference

This ten minute video was our Electronic Village Classics Fair presentation submitted on Flipgrid

https://flipgrid.com/374152e3

Rehearsals for the 2021 presentation (more informative but longer)

Find the 20 min version of that presentation on YouTube, https://youtu.be/SfusidwHFs0

https://bit.ly/evomc21classics links to all elements of the TESOL 2021 virtual presentation

Go to http://evomc21classics.pbworks.com/ for

The slides used in the TESOL presentation
Details of the storyboard videos showing our meaningful play with peers in Minecraft
References showing how teachers worldwide have used Minecraft in their teaching

See more articles, presentations, and blog posts about EVO Minecraft MOOC here: Pedagogy_of_Minecraft

EVOMC22conf Feb 8, 2022

Starting at midnight UTC on Tuesday Feb 8, 2022, EVO Minecraft MOOC will host what we believe will be the first free conference ever held in Minecraft on the topic of language learning. Participants will be able to join us in Minecraft itself, or in other virtual worlds, or view the proceedings streamed via Zoom and social media. If interested, you can mark the date in your calendar, and stay tuned to updates at our conference portal: https://bit.ly/evomc22conf